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The governor of Abia State, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu has opened up on how he was disappointed by the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) in the just concluded general elections conducted in the state.
Speaking in an interview that was monitored by The Eastern Updates, the outgoing Governor who lost his senatorial ambition, described the BVAS deployed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as a monumental fraud, saying Nigerians did not interrogate it enough.
His words; ‘To be frank with you, I’m one of the people that the BVAS deceived. I’m one of the people who believed the stories around BVAS.
‘No two elections are the same and this particular season of the election was difficult. I give you an example, at some point, more than 102 polling units with more than 100,000 registered voters could not vote in one of the LGAs in our senatorial district.’
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He went on to add that; ‘The margin of lead for the first three candidates was not up to 30,000. Ordinarily, when the margin of lead is not up to what is outstanding, the right thing should be done. Again, the same election was declared inconclusive at some point by the same INEC returning officer who later came back to say she was now ready to declare the results as directed from ‘above’. That is obviously neither here nor there.
‘The Nigerian system creates victims and creates scenarios of varying victory, but I said to myself, that I needed to teach Nigerians that, though an incumbent, if you try an election and it doesn’t work, you can move on. Especially if you really think that it is a call to serve.’
Meanwhile, the election has continued to generate so much controversy with many cases already in court.
